The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-09
NUMBER 10.

TIE police say that dynamite WAS used q,
with malicious intent"
john ID. Sheahan shot and killed
Rufus L. Bishop, at Laurens, South
Carolina, on the Attn. Bishop, IN a
quarrel, on the ID, called Sheahan a
a thief, accused him of ''hirlng a negro
to burn the town of Waterloo" and
threatened to ''shOOt his heart out"
AT Caperton, West Virginia, on the
Sd, Lolly Robinson, colOred, shot and
killed Charles Williams, also colored,
who had been too intimate with Rob-
insOn's wife. Robinson was taken from
the officers by a mob of blacks and
whites and lyHched. The lynchers also
sought RobinsOu's wife, but she es-
capped to the mountains.
Three botheIs. named Moffat, aged
respectfully IL, Is and II years, were
drowned a. the 4th, while bathing at
Fenelon Falls, Ontario.
"A freight train of t~wenty.three
refrigerator cars containing dressed
beef ran off the track neal st. Thomas,
Ontario, on the 4th. Fifteen Of the
cars were completely wrecked, and two
tramps stealing a ride were killed,
Two hundred ana Gfty-six deaths
were reported in New York on the
3d-the largest number in any one day
since 1876.
At Clarendon, Penna., seven miles
east of Warren, on the Philadelphia
and Erie railroad, a fire started in an
old planning mill at half-past nine
O'Clock on the evening of the 4th.
Shortly afterwards flames issued from
the Weaver Hotel, owned by John
Mahoney. The fire swept through the
frame structures of the little town
until twenty acres were burned over,
and the only building of any conse-
quence saved was the railroad depot.
About HOO people were made home.
less. The charred body of a man. sup
posed to be a hack driver named Sulli-
van, was found in the ruins of the
Weaver Hotel. Mahoney was arrested
on the 9th, in the woods, SIX miles from
Clarendon, and lodged in the jail at
Warren to answer the charge of lncen.
qiarism. "Public rumor at Clarendon
says that two weeks ago when liquor
licenses were refused to all applicants
in Warren county, MahOney, proprietor
of the Weaver Hotel. threatened to fire
nv Wv 4 u blt NNNiolOlA VI lilO 1OulI
was not reversed in two Weeks"
Charles Van Aernam and Mrs.
Emma Churchill were killed by a rail-
road tram While crossing the Delaware
and Hudson track in a carriage, near
Knowersyille, New York. on the even
ing of the 4th. Van Aernam had been
warned of the trans approach. Law
enc O'COnnell, a prominent citizen
of Port Jeryis, New York, was killed
by a railroad train at Wilson's Park,
Oh the 4th. a mail train and a local
passenger on tho Maine Central Rail-
road colllded near Gardiner on the
afternoon of the 9th. Both engines
were wrecked and the mail tender was
telescOped into the postal car. Two
train hands and a lady passenger were
severely injured. An oil car on the
Pennsylvania Railroad was thrown
from the track at Dillerville by a COLI
sion on the 4th and set on fire. Three
oil cars, three cars loaded with flour
and a cabin car were burned, causing a
loss of about $4,000.
Christina Krelg, 40 years of age,
committed suicide in New York on
the evening of the 4th. She lett "A note
saying her husband had driven her to
the act. John Garrish, an engineer on
the Erie Railway, committed suicide
near Port Jervis on the 4th. His wife
is in an insane asylum.
John F~el5tbenner stabbed John
Orkner, in Chicago, on the evening of
the Sd, aud Orkner died on the morn
ing of the 9TH from ms wound. Fest
benner, realizing the imminence of the
discovery of the murder, committed
as soon aS he heard of his VIC
death. The motive of the mur-
der is a mystery.
Mrs. Albert Kewerllug was burned
to death at LewistOwn, Penna., OF the
afternoon of the 9th, while pouring
coal oil in a stove to start IA fire. Some
hot embers remaining ignited the oil,
and exploded the can i'll her haad.
"A collision occurred on the even
of the 18th, on tie Milwaukee, Lake
Shore and Western Railroad, neal Bes-
semer, Michigan, by which Daniel
Tangney, Il passenger, and several
employees Of the road We're dangerously
The limited express was being
followed by a switch engine, when IA
break in the passenger engine caused
a stop and the collision,
Two brothers named Bass We're
killed by lightning at Nashville, Mis-
souri,, on the 4th. Two women aud a
child were also shocked, one of the
women perhaps fatally. Two youths,
about II years OF age, who sought shell
ter from a thunder shower under a tree
near Lou syllle, on the 4th, were killed
by lightning. Several other persons
were stunned.
-Henton Miller, Treasurer of Perry
Indiana, disappeared a few
lays ago, and Is a defaulter for SCI 900.
predecessor was also "a defaulter,
and now in the p~enlteutialy. Miller
accompanied in his flight by a
young wife, whom he married less than
4 year age. lie leaves behind a large
OF children by a former wife.
The loss by the burning of the
W eber malt house in Cincinnati is 10Y
estimated at Sl6J, 900, The insurance
SHOT, 200. Hlppely " Hoff's brewery,
Allegheny City, was burned on the
evening of the 4th. Loss, $4,000.